Ye Feng could not help asking:
"What is this thing?"
Orochimaru gave a mysterious smile instead, keeping him in suspense:
"I'll tell you later. Let's revive Rin Nohara first!"
Seeing that Orochimaru would not say, Ye Feng was in no hurry. He took Rin Nohara's cloned body and teleported to a rarely visited site on the border of the Land of Fire.
This had originally been one of Orochimaru's secret laboratories. Orochimaru had abandoned it after Ye Feng stumbled into it by mistake, and now it was just right as a site for their experiment.
Ye Feng spread his divine sense outward. After confirming that there was nothing unusual nearby, he said to Orochimaru:
"Let's begin, then!"
Excitement appeared on Orochimaru's face. He drew a strange, circular jutsu seal on the ground, then placed Rin Nohara in its center.
Ye Feng did not recognize these jutsu seals, but he could guess that this was an improved version of the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
Sure enough, Orochimaru bit his finger, formed hand seals with both hands, then shouted:
"Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu!"
A spectral blue mass of energy appeared out of thin air, then swiftly sank into Rin Nohara's clone.
The clone immediately let out a piercing scream, but a second later, it went still again. Its once-vacant eyes now seemed to come alive, a spark of animation in its black irises.
Then the clone suddenly spoke:
"Hmm? Didn't I die? Why am I still alive? Are you Lord Orochimaru?"
Orochimaru did not answer. Instead, he walked up to Rin Nohara and carefully examined her from head to toe, making her feel uneasy.
At that moment, Ye Feng also noticed something different about Rin Nohara. Revived through Impure World Reincarnation, she actually lacked the cracks that covered the bodies of those